2 Prince of Peace, be ever near us,
Fix in every heart thy home;
With thy sweet communion cheer us,
Quickly let thy kingdom come.
Answer all our expectation;

Give our raptured souls to prove
Strong, abiding consolation,
Heavenly, everlasting love.
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ALMIGHTY God! eternal Lord!

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Thy gracious power make known;

Touch, by the virtue of thy word,
And melt the heart of stone.

2 Speak with a voice that wakes the dead, And bid the sleeper rise;

And let his guilty conscience dread
The death that never dies.

3 Let us receive the word we hear,
Each in an honest heart;

Lay up the precious treasure there,
And never with it part.

4 Now let our darkness comprehend
The light that shines so clear;
Now the revealing Spirit send,
And give us ears to hear.

168 Place of Worship delightful. C. M. 10 GOD of hosts! the mighty Lord!

How lovely is the place

Where we, with holy joy, behold
The brightness of thy face!

2 Thrice happy they, whose choice has thee Their sure protection made;

Who long to tread the sacred ways
Which to thy dwelling lead.

3 For God, who is our sun and shield,
Will grace and glory give;
And no good thing will he withhold
From them that justly live.

4 O Lord of hosts, my King, my God,
How highly blest are they,
Who in thy temple always dwell,
And there thy praise display!

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COME,

One Family in Christ.

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let us join our friends above
Who have obtained the prize,
And on the eagle wings of love,
To joy celestial rise;

Let all the saints terrestrial sing
With those to glory gone:
For all the servants of our King
In earth and heaven are one.

2 One family, we dwell in him,
One church above, beneath,
Though now divided by the stream,
The narrow stream of death
One army of the living God,

To his command we bow:
Part of the host have crossed the flood,
And part is crossing now.

3 How many to their endless home
This solemn moment fly!
And we are to the margin come,
And we expect to die:

His militant, embodied host,

With wishful looks we stand,

And long to see that happy coast,
And reach the heavenly land.

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P.M.

The presence where we stand!
Remember, as we kneel,

That God is nigh at hand,

And while we meet to seek him thus,
He will be gracious e'en to us.

2 The sigh of one distrest

By sorrow for his sins,

Who humbly smites his breast,

And to serve God begins:

This is the voice that God attends,

And such he chooses for his friends. 3 He knows-he knows of me, If I am friend or foe;

Wherever I may be.

He follows as 1 go:

Sees every word, and thought, and look,
And writes it in his judgment book.

4 Well may I think with dread
On that tremendous day,
And hang my guilty head,

And now in earnest pray:

In this accepted time I cry,
Have mercy, Lord! or else I die.

171 Suffer us to come.

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ORD, before thy throne we stand,
Once again thy children see;

Smile upon this youthful band,
Suffer us to come to thee.

2 Whither else should children go,
Weak and impotent as we!

Thou hast all things to bestow,
Suffer us to come to thee.

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3 While we here have life and breath, This our constant prayer should be, This our latest sigh in death,

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Suffer us to come to thee.

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We are but young.

L. M.

WE
WE are but young-yet we may sing
The praises of our heavenly King;
He made the earth, the sea, the sky,
And all the starry worlds on high.

2 We are but young-yet we have heard The gospel news, the heavenly word: If we despise the only way,

Dreadful will be the judgment day.

3 We are but young-yet we must die,
Perhaps our latter end is nigh;

Lord, may we early seek thy grace,
And find in Christ a hiding-place.

4 We are but young-we need a guide;
Jesus, in thee we would confide;
O lead us in the path of truth,
Protect and bless our helpless youth.

5 We are but young-yet God has shed
Unnumbered blessings on our head;
Then let our youth and riper days
Be all devoted to his praise.

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INVITING.

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IF

Early seek God.

you will turn away from sin
In childhood's early day,

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The Lord will make you pure within,
And take your guilt away.

2 He'll show you all his matchless love,
He'll make you heirs of light,

And give you grace, that you may prove
Still faithful in his sight.

3 He'll lead you in the pleasant way
Of holiness and peace;

And guide you thus to endless day,
Where sin and sorrow cease.

4 0 stay not in the road to death,
But to the Saviour come;

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And, when you lose life's flecting breath, He'll send and take you home.

174 The last Call to Sinners.

SAY

L. M.

sinner, hath a voice within
Oft whispered to thy secret soul,
Urged thee to leave the ways of sin,
And leave thy heart to God's control.

2 God's Spirit will not always strive
With hardened, self-destroying man
Ye, who persist his love to grieve,
May never hear his voice again.

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